Diaspora Nigerians unveil plan to create 1 million jobs        

The Association of Nigerian –American Professionals in Nigeria (ANAPIN) yesterday unveiled plans to create one million jobs to address the problem of unemployment in the country.

Mazi Okoro, the association’s president, stated this in Abuja when ANAPIN visited Abike Dabiri-Erewa, senior special assistance to the President on Foreign Affairs and Diaspora.

He said that the association would partner with state governments and other stakeholders to harness available resources in the country to support government efforts in the area of tackling unemployment.

“We want to see how we can deepen our partnership with the government since there are a lot of areas we can synergize with the government,” Okoro assured.

According to him, “one of the things we are proposing to government is that the ANAPIN has designed a project that can create one million jobs which can help to reduce importation of goods, and unemployment.”

He noted that the association will discuss with the government on ways of enhancing the economy of the country.

Speaking further, he said that ANAPIN was poised to assisting children in the areas that are ravaged by the Boko Haram insurgency in the north east of the country.

Okoro stressed that the organization was partnering with a US based educational organization to bring about relief for children in the Boko Haram ravaged areas of the nation.

 

 In his words, “we have a project that we are doing in collaboration with the former consular general of the US Ambassador Houston.”

 

The aim of the project, he explained, is to look for ways of how ANAPIN can assist in taking girls from the Boko Haram region of the north east to be trained in the US

 

Dabiri-Erewa, in her remarks, commended ANAPIN for its efforts to give back what IT has taken from the country through education and job creation.

She assured them of the support from the government, promising to link them up with the appropriate quarters for the success of their projects.

“I want to thank you for what you are doing by thinking of giving back from what you have taken, especially on the projects you propose and I am sure that the governors in the north east will be happy to hear that you want to assist their children,” she expressed.